diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/electronics/hal-hardware-analyzer/4.4.1-newer-spdlog-fmt-compat.patch b/pkgs/applications/science/electronics/hal-hardware-analyzer/4.4.1-newer-spdlog-fmt-compat.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 016e74415644..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/science/electronics/hal-hardware-analyzer/4.4.1-newer-spdlog-fmt-compat.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-compatibility with newer spdlog/fmt versions
-
-diff --git a/plugins/module_identification/src/api/module_identification.cpp b/plugins/module_identification/src/api/module_identification.cpp
-index 808875e8a68..3cf3cf1fb8b 100644
---- a/plugins/module_identification/src/api/module_identification.cpp
-+++ b/plugins/module_identification/src/api/module_identification.cpp
-@@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ namespace hal
- 
-                 const u32 num_threads = std::min(config.m_max_thread_count, std::thread::hardware_concurrency() - 1);
- 
--                log_info("module_identification", "running with {} threads and {} multithreading priority", num_threads, config.m_multithreading_priority);
-+                log_info("module_identification", "running with {} threads and {} multithreading priority", num_threads, fmt::underlying(config.m_multithreading_priority));
- 
-                 auto stats = Statistics();
- 
-diff --git a/plugins/z3_utils/src/simplification.cpp b/plugins/z3_utils/src/simplification.cpp
-index d64cab665f2..561fa7f1a23 100644
---- a/plugins/z3_utils/src/simplification.cpp
-+++ b/plugins/z3_utils/src/simplification.cpp
-@@ -617,7 +617,7 @@ namespace hal
-                     return false;
- 
-                 default: {
--                    log_error("z3_utils", "commutative check not implemeted for type {}!", t);
-+                    log_error("z3_utils", "commutative check not implemeted for type {}!", fmt::underlying(t));
-                     return false;
-                 }
-             }
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/electronics/hal-hardware-analyzer/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/science/electronics/hal-hardware-analyzer/default.nix
index 4fed26932415..136834c6a294 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/science/electronics/hal-hardware-analyzer/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/science/electronics/hal-hardware-analyzer/default.nix
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
   boost,
   cmake,
   fetchFromGitHub,
-  fetchpatch,
   graphviz,
   igraph,
   llvmPackages,
@@ -23,33 +22,16 @@
 }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  version = "4.4.1";
+  version = "4.5.0";
   pname = "hal-hardware-analyzer";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "emsec";
     repo = "hal";
-    rev = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "sha256-8kmYeqsmqR7tY044rZb3KuEAVGv37IObX6k1qjXWG0A=";
+    tag = "v${version}";
+    hash = "sha256-4HLM/7JCDxWRWusGL4lUa8KXCn9pe3Vkr+lOxHOraNU=";
   };
 
-  patches = [
-    (fetchpatch {
-      name = "de-vendor-nlohmann-json.patch";
-      # https://github.com/emsec/hal/pull/596
-      url = "https://github.com/emsec/hal/commit/f8337d554d80cfa2588512696696fd4c878dd7a3.patch";
-      hash = "sha256-QjgvcduwbFccC807JFOevlTfO3KiL9T3HSqYmh3sXAQ=";
-    })
-    (fetchpatch {
-      name = "fix-vendored-igraph-regression.patch";
-      # https://github.com/emsec/hal/pull/596
-      url = "https://github.com/emsec/hal/commit/fe1fe74719ab4fef873a22e2b28cce0c57d570e0.patch";
-      hash = "sha256-bjbW4pr04pP0TCuSdzPcV8h6LbLWMvdGSf61RL9Ju6E=";
-    })
-    ./4.4.1-newer-spdlog-fmt-compat.patch
-    ./resynthesis-fix-narrowing-conversion.patch
-  ];
-
   # make sure bundled dependencies don't get in the way - install also otherwise
   # copies them in full to the output, bloating the package
   postPatch = ''
@@ -117,6 +99,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   '';
 
   meta = with lib; {
+    changelog = "https://github.com/emsec/hal/blob/${src.tag}/CHANGELOG.md";
     description = "Comprehensive reverse engineering and manipulation framework for gate-level netlists";
     mainProgram = "hal";
     homepage = "https://github.com/emsec/hal";
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/electronics/hal-hardware-analyzer/resynthesis-fix-narrowing-conversion.patch b/pkgs/applications/science/electronics/hal-hardware-analyzer/resynthesis-fix-narrowing-conversion.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 58160330cd06..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/science/electronics/hal-hardware-analyzer/resynthesis-fix-narrowing-conversion.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/plugins/resynthesis/src/resynthesis.cpp b/plugins/resynthesis/src/resynthesis.cpp
-index 7a7e404114f..f2889667af8 100644
---- a/plugins/resynthesis/src/resynthesis.cpp
-+++ b/plugins/resynthesis/src/resynthesis.cpp
-@@ -1058,7 +1058,7 @@ namespace hal
-             // delete the created directory and the contained files
-             std::filesystem::remove_all(base_path);
- 
--            return OK(subgraph.size());
-+            return OK(static_cast<unsigned int>(subgraph.size()));
-         }
- 
-         Result<u32> resynthesize_subgraph_of_type(Netlist* nl, const std::vector<const GateType*>& gate_types, GateLibrary* target_gl)